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C#, Development, Gotcha, Obscure

Using absolute paths with FTP

by: admin2020-08-26

Obscure problem Ran into an annoying problem recently where an FTP account I was logging in with had a home directory of something like this: […]

Development, Gotcha, IIS

IIS application pool exploit

by: admin2020-02-15

What? That’s what I said too when I first discovered the exploit. I didn’t think it was so easily possible to extract usernames and passwords […]

Gotcha, How to, Windows

Cannot ping or RDP to Windows 10 machine

by: admin2019-02-10

Problem This is a particularly stupid gotcha. For a long time now I haven’t been able to RDP into my Windows 10 Surface Pro 4. […]

Development, Gotcha, SQL Server

Padding a string in tSQL

by: admin2019-02-04

Gotcha There isn’t a Pad Left or Pad Right function in tSQL. Solution There is a lengthy discussion about this topic already on Stack Overflow […]

C#, Date and Time, Gotcha

Why months is a terrible measurement

by: admin2018-05-23

Introduction There have been numerous times that I have been asked to provide a threshold or measure something in months. I always warn that this […]

Gotcha, SQL Server

Sql Server REPLACE function makes expression string NULL when replacement string is NULL

by: admin2018-02-05

Obscure problem This has happened to me before, but naturally I forgot because it has been a while. The scenario is that you have dynamic […]

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